This is a dark time in Chicago sports, so I’m doing my damnedest to find things that take my mind off of the ending of the Bears game yesterday. Yikes. While the pursuit of the biggest free agent in this upcoming market is typically a very disappointing topic for Cubs fans, this little nugget from FanGraphs Contract Crank Jon Becker tickled my fancy. Juan Soto is going to end up signing somewhere for a whole lot of money, and the structure of that deal could end up being very interesting.
It’s entirely possible that Soto will want all of his money paid in real-time, though Scott Boras has been known to work out heavily deferred deals.